Mathematical Methods for Physicists: A Comprehensive Guide / Edition 7

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Overview

Now in its 7th edition, Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists and engineers are likely to encounter as students and beginning researchers. This bestselling text provides mathematical relations and their proofs essential to the study of physics and related fields. While retaining the key features of the 6th edition, the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation, theory, and examples. Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications, the book's improved focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers and well into their professions. Some notable enhancements include more refined and focused content in important topics, improved organization, updated notations, extensive explanations and intuitive exercise sets, a wider range of problem solutions, improvement in the placement, and a wider range of difficulty of exercises.

  • Revised and updated version of the leading text in mathematical physics
  • Focuses on problem-solving skills and active learning, offering numerous chapter problems
  • Clearly identified definitions, theorems, and proofs promote clarity and understanding

New to this edition:

  • Improved modular chapters
  • New up-to-date examples
  • More intuitive explanations

Audience: Academic professionals and aspiring physicists and researchers.

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Praise for the sixth edition:

"As to a comparison with other books of the same ilk, well, in all honesty, there are none. No other text on methods of mathematical physics is as comprehensive and as complete..." -Tristan Hubsch, Howard University

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780123846549
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Publication date: 2/3/2012
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 7
  • Pages: 1220
  • Sales rank: 782,471
  • Product dimensions: 7.80 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents

  1. Mathematical Preliminaries
  2. Determinants and Matrices
  3. Vector Analysis
  4. Tensors and Differential Forms
  5. Vector Spaces
  6. Eigenvalue Problems
  7. Ordinary Differential Equations
  8. Sturm-Liouville Theory
  9. Partial Differential Equations
  10. Green's Functions
  11. Complex Variable Theory
  12. Further Topics in Analysis
  13. Gamma Function
  14. Bessel Functions
  15. Legendre Functions
  16. Angular Momentum
  17. Group Theory
  18. More Special Functions
  19. Fourier Series
  20. Integral Transforms
  21. Integral Equations
  22. Calculus of Variations
  23. Probability and Statistics
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